ABOUT ME

KHALEB BROOKS
SCULPTURE + FILM + PAINTING + PERFORMANCE
BASED RIO DE JANIERO

Khaleb Brooks uses archives, memory, and personal experience to reframe history and healing. Selected for The Wake, London's first memorial to Transatlantic Slave Trade victims, Brooks was also a Sundance Trans Possibilities Fellow. Recent highlights include Jupiter’s Song at the International Slavery Museum, residencies in Brazil, Los Angeles, and Tate Modern and performances at Onassis in Athens and the Venice Biennale, sparking global conversations on race, identity, and liberation.

Currently Unsigned.

EXHIBITIONS

2023 | Wayward Watermelons (Performance), Onassis AiR, Athens, Greece 2023

2023 | The Well Retreat, Tuxedo Residency, Los Angeles, California

2022 | Jupiter’s Song, Solo, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK

2022 | Can I Get A Witness, Solo, Gazelli Art House, London, UK

2022 | Decriminalized Futures (Commission), Institute of Contemporary Art, London

2021 | Twitching Curtain, Gazelli Art House

2019 | Celebrating Stonewall 50 years (Commission), Schwules Museum, Berlin

2019 | Stonewall 50 Days of Future Past, Glougauair, Berlin

2019 | Its Not Me Its You (Performance), Gazelli Art House, London

2019 | 3x 3 x 6, Shu Lea Cheang and Paul Preciado, Venice Biennale

2018 | Rememory: Ritual Blackness and Beyond, Solo, WE-DEY, Vienna, Austria

2018 | TransFormations Film Festival Berlin, Werkstatt Der Kulturen Berlin, Germany

2018 | Re: Generate Arts Festival (Commission), Ugly Duck Gallery, London, UK

2018 | Punx of Colour, 198 Contemporary Arts Gallery, London, UK

RESIDENCIES - CREATIVE DIRECTION

2025 | G.A.S., Lagos Nigeria - Memorialisation in the diaspora
2024 | Sundance - Trans Possibilities Fellowship mentored by industry professionals to develop a film script.

2024, 2023, 2022 | Spazio 500 - Morphic Field and Dance of Spores - Independent research and 10 day Butoh residency intensive in Vigolo Vattaro, Italy.

2023 | Creative Director - Esperanza Spalding - Led on all creative direction for jazz artist Esperanza Spalding for album Milton + esperanza.

2023 | OTV Screenwriting Fellow - Six month Fellowship mentored by industry professionals to develop a film script.

2023 | Onassis Air - 10 day residency developing performance piece “Wayward Watermelons”.

2023 | Brighter Sound - Teaching Artist Workshop - Delivered workshops to artists participating in the Here to Remember Residency.

2023 | Onassis Air Fellowship - Researched sites of memory and African diasporic storytelling in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, Brazil.

2022 - 2023 | Tuxedo Artist in Residence - Participated in a live/ work residency in Los Angeles, California. Created and showcased new works during Frieze LA and conceptualized events centering artistic activation.

2022 - 2023 | Tate Modern - External Curator - Designs programming and selects artists for Tate’s Artists in Residence Programme. Facilitates Development Days for artists and offers one on one career and artistic development.

2019- 2022 | Tate Artist in Residence Programme - Delivers artistic and social justice oriented workshops to students, Tate’s Learning Department staff and to selected UK primary school teachers. Designing and implementation of creative pamphlets.

2021- 2022 | Metal Culture - Mentorship, access to facilities and grounding research in local communities in Liverpool.

2021 - 2022 | International Slavery Museum - Working with museum collection, curators and archivists to create new works on the legacy of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.